Hacker News | Lawrence Lessig's new TED talk

Hacker News | Lawrence Lessig's new TED talk: "What's more fundamental: the way that campaigns are funded, or the fact the most voters have no clue what their representatives actually stand for - or even who they are? Removing the funding doesn't tie the reps down, it just leaves them floating in the wind - and influence can certainly be traded for things other than campaign contributions.
The fundamental problem stems now, as ever, from distributed costs and concentrated benefits. The energy company lobbies with millions because they can expect the benefits of lobbying to exceed the millions. The people could easily out-vote the special interests, but with current technology, the cost of casting an informed vote is greater than the expected benefit.
The solution, I think, is to create technology which shifts the co"